Looking for breakthrough ideas for innovation challenges? Try Patsnap Eureka!

Phosphor and light emitting instrument

a technology of phosphor and light emitting instrument, which is applied in the field of phosphor, can solve the problems of chemical instability, deviation in color rendering property, and durability of phosphors, and achieve the effect of not affecting luminance deterioration

Active Publication Date: 2011-05-24
NAT INST FOR MATERIALS SCI
View PDF10 Cites 3 Cited by
  • Summary
  • Abstract
  • Description
  • Claims
  • Application Information

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

The present invention relates to a phosphor that can be used in lighting instruments and image displaying apparatuses. The phosphor is exposed to excitation sources, such as vacuum ultraviolet light, and causes deterioration of luminance. To address this problem, the invention proposes a phosphor that is free of luminance deterioration. The invention describes various phosphors that can be used for this purpose, including sialon phosphor, nitride phosphor, and oxynitride phosphor. These phosphors are activated by various elements such as Eu, Ce, or the like, and have different crystal structures. The invention also describes the use of these phosphors in lighting instruments and image displaying apparatuses, and the resulting color rendering properties.

Problems solved by technology

However, since phosphor is exposed to the aforementioned excitation sources to resultingly cause a problem of deteriorated luminance, thereby necessitating a phosphor, which is free of luminance deterioration.
Further, the phosphors have been chemically unstable depending on compositions, thereby exhibiting a problem of durability.
However, the white light emitting diode comprising the blue light emitting diode element and the yttrium / aluminum / garnet based phosphor has a feature to emit bluish white light due to lack of a red component, thereby problematically exhibiting deviation in a color rendering property.
However, there have been still left problems to be improved concerning an insufficient color rendering property even by these inventions, thereby necessitating a problem less light emitting diode.
Further, the red-aimed phosphor described in JP-A-10-163535 (the patent-related reference 11) includes cadmium, thereby exhibiting a problem of environmental pollution.

Method used

the structure of the environmentally friendly knitted fabric provided by the present invention; figure 2 Flow chart of the yarn wrapping machine for environmentally friendly knitted fabrics and storage devices; image 3 Is the parameter map of the yarn covering machine
View more

Image

Smart Image Click on the blue labels to locate them in the text.
Viewing Examples
Smart Image
  • Phosphor and light emitting instrument
  • Phosphor and light emitting instrument
  • Phosphor and light emitting instrument

Examples

Experimental program
Comparison scheme
Effect test

example 1

[0177]Used for preparation of a starting material powder were: a silicon nitride powder having an averaged particle size of 0.5 μm, an oxygen content of 0.93 wt %, and an α-type content of 92%; an aluminum nitride powder having a specific surface area of 3.3 m2 / g, and an oxygen content of 0.79%; a calcium nitride powder; and europium nitride synthesized by nitriding metal europium in ammonia.

[0178]Composition Formula:

[0179]To obtain a compound represented by a composition formula Eu0.002674Ca0.331551Al0.334225Si0.334225N1.002674 (Table 1 shows parameters of a designed composition, and Table 2 shows a mixture composition of starting material powders), there were weighed 33.858 wt %, 29.681 wt %, 35.499 wt %, and 0.961 wt % of a silicon nitride powder, an aluminum nitride powder, a calcium nitride powder, and a europium nitride powder; the powders were then mutually mixed for 30 minutes by an agate pestle and an agate mortar, and thereafter, the obtained mixture was naturally dropped ...

example 2

[0189]Used as starting materials were the same aluminum nitride powder, the same calcium nitride powder, and the same europium nitride synthesized by nitriding metal europium in ammonia, as Example 1.

[0190]Composition Formula:

[0191]To obtain a compound represented by a composition formula Eu0.001993Ca0.182642Al0.628737Si0.182642N1.003986 (Table 1 shows parameters of a designed composition, and Table 2 shows a mixture composition of starting material powders), there were weighed 20.068 wt %, 58.641 wt %, 20.54 wt %, and 0.75 wt % of a silicon nitride powder; an aluminum nitride powder, a calcium nitride powder, and a europium nitride powder; to synthesize an inorganic compound by the same process as Example 1.

[0192]Next, the synthesized compound was pulverized by an agate mortar, and there was conducted a powder X-ray diffraction measurement by Kα line of Cu. The resultingly obtained chart is shown in FIG. 4, and phases other than a mixture of CaAlSiN3 crystal and AlN crystal were no...

examples 3 to 43

[0195]Inorganic compounds were prepared by the same procedure as Example 1, except for compositions listed in Table 1 and Table 2. The synthesized inorganic compounds were measured for excitation spectra and emission spectra, thereby showing that the inorganic compounds were red-aimed phosphors which were excited by ultraviolet light or visible light at 350 nm to 600 nm and had emission peaks in a range of 570 nm to 700 nm as shown in Table 3, respectively.

[0196]There will be now explained lighting instruments each adopting the phosphor comprising the nitride of the present invention. FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a structure of a white LED as a lighting instrument. The lighting instrument adopts a blue LED 2 of 450 nm as a light emitting element, and has a structure that the blue LED 2 is covered by a resin layer including, dispersed therein, the phosphor of Example 1 of the present invention, and a yellow-aimed phosphor of Ca-α-sialon:Eu having a composition of Ca0.75Eu0.25Si8.625...

the structure of the environmentally friendly knitted fabric provided by the present invention; figure 2 Flow chart of the yarn wrapping machine for environmentally friendly knitted fabrics and storage devices; image 3 Is the parameter map of the yarn covering machine
Login to View More

PUM

PropertyMeasurementUnit
wavelengthaaaaaaaaaa
wavelengthaaaaaaaaaa
wavelengthaaaaaaaaaa
Login to View More

Abstract

The present invention aims at providing a chemically stabilized inorganic phosphor which emits orange light or red light at wavelengths longer than the conventional rare-earth activated sialon phosphor and which has a higher luminance.The solving means resides in an inorganic phosphor design represented by a composition formula MaAbDcEdNeOfXg and containing: an M element (M is one kind or two or more kinds of element(s) selected from Mn, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu); a divalent A element (A is one kind or two or more kinds of element(s) selected from Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba); a trivalent E element (E is one kind or two or more kinds of element(s) selected from B, Al, Ga, and In); a tetravalent D element (D is one kind or two or more kinds of element(s) selected from Si, Ge, and Sn); nitrogen; oxygen (including an oxygen absent condition); and another X element (including an X absent condition); wherein the parameters a, b, c, d, e, f, and g included in the equation are adjusted to and set at particular regions to provide an inorganic phosphor which emits orange light at wavelengths of 570 nm or longer or red light at wavelengths of 600 nm or longer with excellent color rendering property.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to a phosphor mainly including an inorganic compound and usage thereof. More particularly, the usage relates to a light emitting instrument for a lighting instrument and for an image displaying apparatus, utilizing the nature possessed by the phosphor, i.e., the property to emit fluorescence at long wavelengths of 570 nm or longer.BACKGROUND ART[0002]Phosphors have been utilized for vacuum fluorescent displays (VFD), field emission displays (FED), plasma display panels (PDP), cathode ray tubes (CRT), white light emitting diodes (LED), and the like.[0003]In all these usages, it is required to supply an energy to an applicable phosphor to thereby excite it so as to cause it to emit light, and the phosphor is excited by an excitation source having a higher energy such as vacuum ultraviolet light, ultraviolet light, electron beam, blue light, or the like, such that the phosphor is caused to emit visible light.[0004]However, since phosph...

Claims

the structure of the environmentally friendly knitted fabric provided by the present invention; figure 2 Flow chart of the yarn wrapping machine for environmentally friendly knitted fabrics and storage devices; image 3 Is the parameter map of the yarn covering machine
Login to View More

Application Information

Patent Timeline
no application Login to View More
Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): C09K11/08C09K11/70C09K11/77C09K11/02C09K11/59C09K11/64H01J11/22H01J11/24H01J11/34H01J11/42H01J29/20H01J31/12H01J31/15H01L33/44H01L33/48H01L33/50
CPCC04B35/581C04B35/584C04B35/6268C09K11/0883C09K11/7734C04B2235/3852C04B2235/3865C04B2235/3873H01L33/502C04B2235/5436C04B2235/723H01J2217/49H01J2329/00C04B2235/3895H01L2224/32245H01L2224/48091H01L2224/48247H01L2224/73265C09K11/77348H01L2924/00014H01L2924/00C09K11/64H01J11/42C09K11/08C09K11/59
Inventor HIROSAKI, NAOTO
Owner NAT INST FOR MATERIALS SCI
Who we serve
  • R&D Engineer
  • R&D Manager
  • IP Professional
Why Patsnap Eureka
  • Industry Leading Data Capabilities
  • Powerful AI technology
  • Patent DNA Extraction
Social media
Patsnap Eureka Blog
Learn More
PatSnap group products

Browse by: Latest US Patents, China's latest patents, Technical Efficacy Thesaurus, Application Domain, Technology Topic, Popular Technical Reports.

© 2024 PatSnap. All rights reserved.Legal|Privacy policy|Modern Slavery Act Transparency Statement|Sitemap|About US| Contact US: help@patsnap.com